I want to be able to download the newest gaim but am unable. As such a friend told me to make it so apt-get can download unstable packages. So he told me to change my sources.list file. here is sources.list. Let me know what is wrong with it. # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. # Security updates for "stable" deb http://security.debian.org unstable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free # Stable deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free # Sources deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free # Testing deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free # Sources deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free # Unstable deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free # Sources deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free # Experimental # deb http://debian.uni-essen.de/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free # deb-src http://debian.uni-essen.de/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free # Mozilla deb http://non-us.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ # GNOME 2.0 # deb http://www.gnome.de/debian/ ./ # KDE 3 # deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main # deb-src http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main # We get packages from testing/unstable for now # cdbakeoven # deb http://coyote.asoc.euitt.upm.es/mud/debian/ ./ # XFree 4.2/4.3 deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages sid/i386/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages sid/source/ deb http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386 ./ deb-src http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/source ./ # Java deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free # deb http://people.debian.org/~sgybas/jdk13 # LyX & others (now in debian/unstable) # deb ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian unofficial/ # deb-src ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian unofficial/ # Evolution #deb ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/debian stable main #deb-src ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/debian stable main # Blades Repository (pppoeconf & co) deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./ # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main -- <:-)~MIKE~(-:> This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blocked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE with every account. http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net